Reynard
The straight line.
The fastest way between two points is a straight line. The tower built a maze of paywalls and permissions. Reynard knew the maze was never necessary — so we drew the line.
Run with Reynard
The maze
For decades, research has sat behind paywalls — written by scholars, locked by publishers. The tower built a maze and called it order. SPIN is the straight line through it.
Who is Reynard?
In the medieval tales, Reynard was the fox who outwitted kings — summoned to the lion’s court, condemned by wolves, hunted by bears, and he talked his way out every single time. Not with force. With wit. The powerful built their courts and wrote their rules. Reynard built his exits. Eight hundred years later, the court is publishers and the walls are paywalls. The fox is back.
The line
SpinWave is a scholarly manuscript and data repository built on one conviction: knowledge belongs to everyone. Scholars bring manuscripts and datasets. Readers come to learn. Every contribution recognized, every scholar named. No maze. SPIN is how the clever recognize their own.
Recognition
Accepted manuscripts are recognized with 25,000 SPIN. Datasets with 40,000 — 55,000 with a worked example. Peer reviewers are honored for their part. When readers license your work, the scholar comes first: sixty percent, straight to the one who did the work.
The timeline
Phase 0 is now: the brand, the covenant, the foundation. Scholar recognition opens in Phase 1. Reader licensing opens in Phase 2. We’re building it in the open, and we’re telling you exactly where it stands.
